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US Gaza Plan: Forced Ghettoisation, Aannexation, Mass Ddetention, Resource Plunder
By :Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
03 December 2025
US plan in Gaza: forced ghettoisation, annexation, mass detention, resource plunder     Palestinian Territory – The consequences of the US plan to support dividing the Gaza Strip into green and red zones separated by a yellow military line carry grave risks, including the effective displacement of Palestinians from their homes and the transformation
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“New Gaza” Initiative to Move 2 million Palestinians
By :Ron Ben-Yishai, Y-net News
01 December 2025
Israeli occupation forces [referred to as IDF in this article] try to control the narrative of its genocide in Palestine while a US-backed `New Gaza` pilot in Rafah moves slowly forward. The term “resistance fighters” here replaces the author’s use of the word “terrorists”—HLRN.     US `New Gaza` initiative seeks to move
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New Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and Israel
By :OHCHR
28 November 2025
Human Rights Council President appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel   GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Srinivasan Muralidhar (India), Florence Mumba (Zambia) and Chris Sidoti (Australia), to serve as members of the United Nations
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Palestine’s West Bank: Record Israeli Criminal Construction Tenders in 2025
By :Jeremy Sharon, Times of Israel
09 November 2025
Tenders for record number of West Bank settlement housing units published in 2025   Some 5,667 housing units will be built when the tenders are awarded, will house 25,000 residents; previous high was in 2018 when tenders for just over 3,800 homes were published   The number of housing units in West Bank settlements
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3rd Arab Land Conference Report is Out!
By :The Arab Land Initiative Team, GLTN
23 October 2025
The Final Report is out, and so are all the session recordings and materials! Whether you joined us in person, participated online or couldn’t make it, this is your opportunity to explore the Conference’s key insights on land governance across the Arab region through its most pressing themes, including
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Southern Somalia: Fighting Displaces Hundreds of Farming Families
By :Shabelle Media
31 August 2025
Fighting in southern Somalia displaces hundreds of farming families   MOGADISHU—Recent heavy fighting and airstrikes in the towns of Sabiid and Caanoole in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region have forced hundreds of families to flee their homes, triggering a new wave of displacement and deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis.   The majority of those
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Disaster Capitalism and the Postwar Plans for Gaza
By :Nur Arafeh and Mandy Turner, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
24 July 2025
Destruction, Disempowerment, and Dispossession: Disaster Capitalism and the Postwar Plans for Gaza Once Israel’s war in the territory is brought to an end, the foundational principles guiding reconstruction should be Palestinian self-determination, local agency, and sovereignty.     Introduction   Israel’s war against Gaza has devastated Palestinian life there and destroyed the territory’s political economy and infrastructure.
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Women in the Wake of Floods
By :Habitat Defenders Africa (HDA) and HIC-HLRN
10 June 2025
This report presents the outcomes of applying the Climate Change Impact-assessment and Justice Tool (CCIAJT) to produce community-led data on the costs, loss and damage incurred by women-headed households in the 2025 flooding in Kosovo Informal Settlement, Kampala, Uganda.   The enumeration exercise has resulted in a conservative estimate of €55,021 in
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Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)
By :HIC-HLRN
23 April 2025

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Humanitarians in Gaza: “Let us do our jobs!”
By :Various aid agencies
17 April 2025
“Let us do our jobs” — CEOs of major aid groups in Gaza warn aid system is collapsing   After 18 months of war, a staggering toll on civilians and aid workers, and now a six-week total siege, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is facing total collapse with the CEOs of
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Documents (31)

Document Title

Publication Date

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Yenişehir Housing Project for Earthquake Survivors

15 February 2023

Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism

27 December 2022

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)

21 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)

20 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)

18 September 2022

الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)

18 September 2022

Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara

16 March 2022

تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة

11 December 2020

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence

05 December 2018

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut

24 May 2017

Report of fourth “Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut May 2017

05 May 2017

برنامج ورشة العمل الأولى لمشروع الملجأ في المدينة،بيروت

21 December 2016

ملاحظات تمهيدية، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

الحكومات المحلية والمجتمعات المستضيفة تجاه أزمة اللاجئين، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

نماذج عملية للحق في المدينة، الملجأ في المدينة، بيروت

21 December 2016

The Role of Local Government in Addressing the Impact of Syrian Refugees: Jordan Case Study

03 June 2016

Sanctuary in the City: Beirut

01 June 2016

HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers

31 July 2015

العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية

09 March 2010

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

05 February 2007

Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17

28 June 2005

S/RES/520 (1982)

17 September 1982

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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